[users@httpd] Help with cgi-bin directory setup under Data Mine

[Fred Frazelle <fr...@yahoo.com>]

     Dear members --

	i'm not sure if this is the right forum for this or not.  i'm trying to 
set up a small program called Data
Mine which essentially does a local search on text documents and returns 
a two page web type output (see here for example 
http://jonathanscorner.com/etc/datamine/datamine.html) and am having 
problems with i don't know what.

	The program's author suggested i ask a well-crafted question, but since 
i don't know what the problem is to begin with, this is difficult, 
however he said that it appeared that my "installation was not 
configured to run " and that i should ask "how to configure a working 
cgi-bin directory in /var/www/cgi-bin".


    My Apache version looks like 2.0.54 under Linux distro is Mandriva 2006.

    He told me to include the the conf file below>

httpd2.conf

### Main Configuration Section
### You really shouldn't change these settings unless you're a guru
###
ServerRoot /etc/httpd/2.0
#ServerName localhost
#LockFile /etc/httpd/httpd.lock
PidFile /var/run/httpd.pid
ErrorLog logs/error_log
LogLevel warn
DocumentRoot /var/www/html


### Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support
###
### You should always leave those three, as they are needed for
### normal use.
### mod_access (Order, Allow, etc..)
### mod_log_config (Transferlog, etc..)
### mod_mime (AddType, etc...)

LoadModule access_module    modules/mod_access.so
LoadModule auth_module        modules/mod_auth.so
LoadModule auth_anon_module    modules/mod_auth_anon.so
##LoadModule auth_dbm_module    modules/mod_auth_dbm.so
LoadModule auth_digest_module    modules/mod_auth_digest.so
##LoadModule charset_lite_module    modules/mod_charset_lite.so
##LoadModule case_filter_module    modules/mod_case_filter.so
##LoadModule case_filter_in_module    modules/mod_case_filter_in.so
##LoadModule ext_filter_module    modules/mod_ext_filter.so
LoadModule include_module    modules/mod_include.so
LoadModule log_config_module    modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule logio_module        modules/mod_logio.so
LoadModule env_module        modules/mod_env.so
##LoadModule mime_magic_module    modules/mod_mime_magic.so
##LoadModule cern_meta_module    modules/mod_cern_meta.so
LoadModule expires_module    modules/mod_expires.so
LoadModule headers_module    modules/mod_headers.so
LoadModule usertrack_module    modules/mod_usertrack.so
##LoadModule unique_id_module    modules/mod_unique_id.so
LoadModule setenvif_module    modules/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule mime_module        modules/mod_mime.so
LoadModule status_module    modules/mod_status.so
LoadModule autoindex_module    modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule asis_module        modules/mod_asis.so
LoadModule info_module        modules/mod_info.so
LoadModule cgi_module        modules/mod_cgi.so
##LoadModule cgid_module        modules/mod_cgid.so
LoadModule vhost_alias_module    modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
LoadModule negotiation_module    modules/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule dir_module        modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule imap_module        modules/mod_imap.so
LoadModule actions_module    modules/mod_actions.so
##LoadModule speling_module    modules/mod_speling.so
LoadModule userdir_module    modules/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule alias_module        modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule rewrite_module    modules/mod_rewrite.so

###
### Global Configuration
###
# We now support multiple apache configurations on the same server. In
# common.conf, we put all directives that are common to all implementations
# (httpd, httpd-perl, etc.)
# For Apache2 we load all conf files in conf.d
Include /etc/httpd/conf.d/*.conf
Include conf/commonhttpd.conf


###
### IP Address/Port and Proxied configuration section
###
# The APACHEPROXIED setting can be set in /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd if you
# are using a proxy or accelerator, like the Apache-SGI or khttpd, so that
# the fast web server serves static content while Apache handles the
# cgi or php files

#BindAddress *
<IfDefine APACHEPROXIED>
    Listen 8080
</IfDefine>
<IfDefine !APACHEPROXIED>
    Listen 80
</IfDefine>

# Likewise, we can set apache as the server by default and send perl
# requests via ProxyPass to apache-mod_perl. It increases performance
# since the perl interpreter is only used for perl and the standard apache
# does all the html and image files, with a smaller footprint.
#
# If you install apache and apache-mod_perl, this is the default config.
# If you don't want two web servers to use perl, uninstall apache, and
# apache-mod_perl will not be proxied.

<IfDefine PERLPROXIED>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^proxy:.*  -  [F]
    RewriteRule ^(.*\/perl\/.*)$  http://%{HTTP_HOST}:8200$1 [P]
    RewriteRule ^(.*\/cgi-perl\/.*)$  http://%{HTTP_HOST}:8200$1 [P]
</IfModule>
</IfDefine>

###
### Log configuration Section
###

<IfModule mod_log_config.c>
#Single logfile with access, agent and referer information
#This is the default, if vlogs are not defined for the main server
CustomLog logs/access_log combined env=!VLOG
#If VLOG is defined in conf/vhosts/Vhost.conf, we use this entry
CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/advxsplitlogfile" vhost env=VLOG
</IfModule>

###
### Virtual Hosts
###
# We include different templates for Virtual Hosting. Have a look in the
# vhosts directory and modify to suit your needs.
Include conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf
#Include conf/vhosts/DynamicVhosts.conf
#Include conf/vhosts/VirtualHomePages.conf


###
### Performance settings Section
###
#
# Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out.
#
Timeout 300

#
# KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than
# one request per connection). Set to "Off" to deactivate.
#
KeepAlive On

#
# MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow
# during a persistent connection. Set to 0 to allow an unlimited amount.
# We recommend you leave this number high, for maximum performance.
#
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

#
# KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request from the
# same client on the same connection.
#
KeepAliveTimeout 15


# prefork MPM [THIS IS THE DEFAULT]
# StartServers: number of server processes to start
# MinSpareServers: minimum number of server processes which are kept spare
# MaxSpareServers: maximum number of server processes which are kept spare
# MaxClients: maximum number of server processes allowed to start
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves
<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers         5
MinSpareServers      5
MaxSpareServers     10
MaxClients         150
MaxRequestsPerChild  0
</IfModule>

# worker MPM
# StartServers: initial number of server processes to start
# MaxClients: maximum number of simultaneous client connections
# MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves
<IfModule worker.c>
StartServers         2
MaxClients         150
MinSpareThreads     25
MaxSpareThreads     75
ThreadsPerChild     25
MaxRequestsPerChild  0
</IfModule>

# perchild MPM
# NumServers: constant number of server processes
# StartThreads: initial number of worker threads in each server process
# MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# MaxThreadsPerChild: maximum number of worker threads in each server
process
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of connections per server process
<IfModule perchild.c>
NumServers           5
StartThreads         5
MinSpareThreads      5
MaxSpareThreads     10
MaxThreadsPerChild  20
MaxRequestsPerChild  0
</IfModule>

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    Is this enough info to get us started?  My knowledge of Linux is
about at a 1.0 level (i try to do as much as possible through KDE and
Mandrake Control Center), and i didn't even know that i would have to 
install an Apache(server?) to run the program, much less how to install 
it.  i think i got it installed by serendipity.  Any help would be 
appreciated!

    Have a nice day!   :-)




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